The Challenge: The Void (Congratulations Cephrir!)
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Wow. One black hole journey and suddenly everyone is against you at every chance.In post 199, TheWayItEnds wrote:you mean the group that already has decided to place me into the black hole whenever they get a chance?-
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oh right people tied the votes with me involved because they DIDNT want to send me to the black hole.
that makes more sense than what i was thinking.As the last rays of sunlight fade, one killer chases another through the tangled madness of the city.
A flash of steel announces the presence of his quarry.
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Spoiler:"CC is very [whatever the equivalent of photogenic as it applies to videos]" - racefan12
"CC is an objectively attractive person." - Crazy
"You look like a happy version of Trent Reznor." - LicketyQuickety
"Do you practice sounding like you're high all the time?" - xofelf-
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{Void 06}
Space Farmers
{DrumBeats, McMenno}
{Cephrir, Fluminator, Gimmick}
{PrivateI, Radja, Xalxe}
For today's Void, we've crash landed on a foreign planet of space farmers. We're gonna need to do a couple of tasks to convince them to help rebuild the ship.
First, you need to interpret the language in the alien radio broadcast that's being transmitted. You'll be given nine 6-12 letter words with their letters scrambled, and each set of letters will have a number of blanks corresponding to the number of letters in that word. One blank in each word will be highlighted. If you unscramble all the words and insert them in the blanks correctly, the highlighted letters from the top to bottom of the page will give you the code needed to move onto the next part of the challenge. In your web browser, type tiny.url.com/ (without the dot between tiny and url) followed by the letters in the highlighted blanks, in all capitals. After 15 minutes of attempting this portion of the challenge, if you still have not completed the anagrams, you may ask a mod to provide the first letter of 3 of the words (of your selection). After an additional 15 minutes of attempting this portion of the challenge, you may ask the mod for 3 additional letters of any of the words (of your selection). This will continue until you have found the link to bring you to the second portion.
That link will bring you to a rectangular grid of dots, with some numbers contained in the spaces between 4 dots. Some dots will already be connected. Your goal is to create a barrier for the farmers' space cows. You'll need to draw one continuous path that doesn't pass through the same dot more than once or intersect with other sections of the path. The path must create a single, connected barrier. Numbers represent the "fences" created by the path (exactly 2 edges are created around the number 2, 3 edges around 3, etc.)You will need an image editor to complete this portion of the challenge.
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The use of any outside sources for this challenge is prohibited.
You'll start the challenge by completing this google form, upon which your time will start and you'll receive the list of scrambled words and blanks. Once you've finished with the barrier, submit the form again, using the space provided to link a screenshot of the completed puzzle. For every line missing from the solution, and for every line placed in an incorrect spot, 10 minutes will be added onto your time. The Black Hole nominee with the slowest time, as well as the Void participant with the slowest time, will be eliminated from the game. You have24 hoursto complete this challenge."CC is very [whatever the equivalent of photogenic as it applies to videos]" - racefan12
"CC is an objectively attractive person." - Crazy
"You look like a happy version of Trent Reznor." - LicketyQuickety
"Do you practice sounding like you're high all the time?" - xofelf-
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Results:
This was a tough void. Plus you are all great competitors. We're getting down to the best of the best. Its like this is invasion of the champions and you've made it to the oasis. Or in terms all you non challenge watchers, you've made jury except you don't get to vote, there is no ponderosa, and I don't care of you watch any tribal councils, because we don't have them. Surviving today means you make the halfway mark. All times include penalties.
{DrumBeats vs. McMenno}
Who wins the black hole?
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This means we say goodbye to:
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Onto The Void.
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Final person safe is:
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This means the person leaving us is:
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CuddlyCaucasian Professor of Being a Dog
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{ROUND 07 TEAMS}
{Gold Team}
{Cephrir, D3f3nd3r, Ghug, McMenno}
{TWIE, Vashta, Xalxe}
{Purple Team}
{Chevre, Fluminator, Gimmick, Kublai}
{Meme, MGD, Radja}"CC is very [whatever the equivalent of photogenic as it applies to videos]" - racefan12
"CC is an objectively attractive person." - Crazy
"You look like a happy version of Trent Reznor." - LicketyQuickety
"Do you practice sounding like you're high all the time?" - xofelf-
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{Mission 07}
Obstacle Course II
We liked it so much the first time that we're bringing it back. Just like the first Obstacle Course mission, your team will run through a course as individuals in which the time of your slowest team member determines your team's final time. However, you'll once again get to appoint "experts" to assist teammates who struggle in each task.
There will be 4 obstacles which will remain unknown until you begin, and you'll need to appoint 1 expert for each obstacle before anyone can start. You'll need a expert, awordsexpert, a expert, and areflexesexpert. Once you've done this, individuals must fill out a google form when they're ready to begin an obstacle. They'll be given each obstacle separately when they're ready, and their time on each obstacle will be stopped once they meet its qualifications.
Once everyone has finished the challenge, experts will give "assistance" on the obstacles they've been assigned to. Assuming the expert wasn't the slowest on their assigned obstacle, time will be taken off of a team's slowest member on an obstacle, while time is added onto that obstacle's expert at the same rate. This continues until either 1) the two players' times become identical, or 2) a tie is reached for slowest time on an obstacle. If the latter is true, all tied players will continue having their time reduced while the expert's time increases at double the rate (or triple if there are 3 tied players, etc.) This continues until the expert has the same time as the tied players.The details of this process may be hard to understand, but your optimal strategy is essentially to have everyone be as fast as possible, and if your expert on an obstacle is faster than everyone else, it'll help your overall time.
An image editor will be required for multiple obstacles. Some obstacles will give time penalties for incorrect parts of your answer, but the maximum time on each obstacle is30 minutes.
No outside resources are allowed, nor is communication about the challenge once players have started on the obstacles.
You have48 hoursdue to the need to determine your experts. The team with the slowest member will enter the Void, and 2 of its members will enter the Black Hole."CC is very [whatever the equivalent of photogenic as it applies to videos]" - racefan12
"CC is an objectively attractive person." - Crazy
"You look like a happy version of Trent Reznor." - LicketyQuickety
"Do you practice sounding like you're high all the time?" - xofelf-
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Some of these obstacles proved to be a bit harder than the first time around, and at this stage in the game it's understandable if you have trouble finishing all of them. Let's see how everyone did.
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Spoiler: Final Placements"CC is very [whatever the equivalent of photogenic as it applies to videos]" - racefan12
"CC is an objectively attractive person." - Crazy
"You look like a happy version of Trent Reznor." - LicketyQuickety
"Do you practice sounding like you're high all the time?" - xofelf-
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{BLACK HOLE VOTE}
{Cephrir, D3f3nd3r, Ghug}
{TWIE, Vashta, Xalxe}
Everyone in the game has(expired on 2018-02-13 15:37:19)to cast a vote for who they want to see in the Black Hole. The 2 players who receive the most votes will be sent into the Black Hole.
Since McMenno won the last Black Hole, he will automatically enter the Void.
"CC is very [whatever the equivalent of photogenic as it applies to videos]" - racefan12
"CC is an objectively attractive person." - Crazy
"You look like a happy version of Trent Reznor." - LicketyQuickety
"Do you practice sounding like you're high all the time?" - xofelf-
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Get ready for a subpar results post
4 people received votes.
Who voted for D3f3nd3r?
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Who voted for Vashta?
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Who voted for Cephrir?
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Who voted for TWIE?
Spoiler:"CC is very [whatever the equivalent of photogenic as it applies to videos]" - racefan12
"CC is an objectively attractive person." - Crazy
"You look like a happy version of Trent Reznor." - LicketyQuickety
"Do you practice sounding like you're high all the time?" - xofelf-
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{Void 07}
Cryptobeats
Communication has been the most important part about this game. We've communicated with aliens many times, but you're all far from mastering communication with every species in the galaxy. The Beatrots are a form of alien who only speak using sounds from a drum machine, and today you'll be interpreting their message into English.
When you're ready to begin, you'll be given a link to a sound clip. A message has been encoded using a system where every letter is replaced by a sound from a drum machine. Repeated uses of the same sound correspond to the same letter. No letter is associated with more than one sound, and no sound encompasses more than one letter. To indicate a space between words, there will be a pause with no sound. Through deduction and trial-and-error, you must decode the message and send it to a moderator to stop your time. If you are incorrect, you'll be told to keep going. The player in the black hole with the slowest time, as well as the player in the void with the slowest time, will be eliminated from the game. You have24 hoursto complete this challenge.
To give you some assistance in solving the cryptogram, use this video as a key. It plays 6 of the sounds that will be used for the challenge, and shows the letter that sound will represent. The sound for each letter will be played twice while the letter is showing on screen.Last edited by pablito on Tue Feb 13, 2018 8:41 pm, edited 1 time in total."CC is very [whatever the equivalent of photogenic as it applies to videos]" - racefan12
"CC is an objectively attractive person." - Crazy
"You look like a happy version of Trent Reznor." - LicketyQuickety
"Do you practice sounding like you're high all the time?" - xofelf-
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If multiple players in the void or if both players in the black hole fail to finish the challenge, the player with the fastest time overall will decide who from the non-finishers is eliminated."CC is very [whatever the equivalent of photogenic as it applies to videos]" - racefan12
"CC is an objectively attractive person." - Crazy
"You look like a happy version of Trent Reznor." - LicketyQuickety
"Do you practice sounding like you're high all the time?" - xofelf-
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I love music challenges, even though this was only drum sounds. Or DrumBeats, if you will, may he rest in peace. Let's get to the results.
First, we'll look at the black hole. Ghug vs. Vashta. Who came out on top?
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Meaning...
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Now the Void competitors. Who finished with the fastest time?
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Who came in second?
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Third?
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The final surviving Void participant is...
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Which spectator finished behind 4th place before we created the partial key?
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This means....
Spoiler:"CC is very [whatever the equivalent of photogenic as it applies to videos]" - racefan12
"CC is an objectively attractive person." - Crazy
"You look like a happy version of Trent Reznor." - LicketyQuickety
"Do you practice sounding like you're high all the time?" - xofelf-
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{ROUND 08 TEAMS}
{Gold Team}
{D3f3nd3r, Gimmick, Kublai}
{Meme, TWIE, Xalxe}
{Purple Team}
{Cephrir, Chevre, Fluminator}
{Ghug, MGD, Radja}"CC is very [whatever the equivalent of photogenic as it applies to videos]" - racefan12
"CC is an objectively attractive person." - Crazy
"You look like a happy version of Trent Reznor." - LicketyQuickety
"Do you practice sounding like you're high all the time?" - xofelf-
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{Mission 08}
Ku-Do-Su
The neat thing about travelling the universe is seeing how different alien culture can be from ours. Did you know that most of them do sudoku puzzles with all the numbers already filled in? It's so fascinating.
This mission issemi-live, and you'll compete whenever you have as many teammates online as possible. When you're ready to begin, you'll be given a link to a Google Drawing, as used in The Missing Link mission. In the drawing, there will be 27 puzzle pieces, each made up of 3 sudoku number blocks. Some blocks will be blue and some will be orange; adjacent 3x3 sections will contain blocks of different colors. For example, the top left 3x3 section of numbers will all be blue, and the 3x3 sections to the right and below will both be orange. It is your task to assemble all the puzzle pieces so that they form a 9x9 grid in which no row has any repeating numbers, no column has any repeating numbers, and no 3x3 colored section has any repeating numbers. You are not allowed to take apart or rotate any puzzle piece, nor can you change the number within a block. The mods will be watching. Finally,no outside sources are allowed for this challenge.
Once you've assembled the puzzle pieces correctly, your time will be stopped. The team with the fastest time will win the mission, and the losing team will all enter the Void, where 2 members will face the Black Hole. You have(expired on 2018-02-16 16:02:02)to complete the mission."CC is very [whatever the equivalent of photogenic as it applies to videos]" - racefan12
"CC is an objectively attractive person." - Crazy
"You look like a happy version of Trent Reznor." - LicketyQuickety
"Do you practice sounding like you're high all the time?" - xofelf-
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The Gold Team finished in...
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The Purple Team.....
Spoiler:"CC is very [whatever the equivalent of photogenic as it applies to videos]" - racefan12
"CC is an objectively attractive person." - Crazy
"You look like a happy version of Trent Reznor." - LicketyQuickety
"Do you practice sounding like you're high all the time?" - xofelf-
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{BLACK HOLE VOTE}
{Cephrir, Chevre, Fluminator}
{MGD, Radja}
Everyone has(expired on 2018-02-16 23:24:01)to cast a vote for someone in the Purple Team to enter the Black Hole. As he survived the previous Black Hole, Ghug is immune and will enter the Void.
"CC is very [whatever the equivalent of photogenic as it applies to videos]" - racefan12
"CC is an objectively attractive person." - Crazy
"You look like a happy version of Trent Reznor." - LicketyQuickety
"Do you practice sounding like you're high all the time?" - xofelf
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